It’s been over 6 decades since the United States has imposed an embargo on Cuba, being probably one of the harshest and longest ever enforced. The different US administrations over the years have quite similar pathways against the communist island, although some US presidents tried to ease the sanctions and reconcile with Cuba. The reasons put forward in perpetuating the …

Several member states of the EU have stated that they will unilaterally keep the bans on Ukrainian grain that were established earlier this year. This move has harshly been critizised by both the EU and Ukrainian government during the last few days and has created a situation that will most likely necessitate the intervention or arbitrariation of the EU or …

The core of children’s human rights abused The situation in Afghanistan changed drastically in August 2021 after the take over by the Talibans. Nonethless, the living conditions and basic fundamental rights of children were endangered beforehand. However, the US presence for twenty years had some benefits such as the adoption of a new constitution and the establishment of a liberal …

The COVID-19 outbreak has severely affected the global population by causing destructive outcomes to numerous aspects of our society. Many regions marked high numbers of victims, along with Africa, South Asia and Latin America, accounting for one of the largest global health crises after the Second World War. The incidents of this pandemic are constantly rising and it is necessary …

Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been at odds for more than a decade over a dam that Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile, the Nile River’s primary tributary. In this regard, In an indirect reference to the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam(GERD) at the sidelines of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on …

Millions of individuals around the world suffer from malnutrition. Most of them come from countries that are linked directly with conflicts, as conflicts affect the food availability and accessibility by having a great impact on agricultural production, mainly through the destruction of infrastructure. Besides that, conflict causes security malfunctions related to the access to the markets and thus, as a …

Haiti has one of the highest levels of food insecurity in the world. 4.4 million Haitians, nearly half the population need immediate food assistance, and among these, 1.2 million suffer from severe hunger (UN World Food Programme, 2021). Moreover, over 1 million people are in a situation classified as emergency (ibid). The impact of food insecurity is most severely impacted on children as according to …

Lebanon is a small but ethnically diverse country located on the eastern coast of Mediterranean. During the past two decades, Lebanon has undergone turbulent times including civil war, military intervention, Israeli occupation, economic crisis, internal conflicts (Winslow, 2012). During the period of civil war, 1975–90, Lebanon was severely attacked by the violence that pervaded the country. Its economic and infrastructural …

There are not many countries that could be described with the term “failed state”.  In fact, as Halden (2008, p. 15) notes: “Somalia is the paradigmatic case around which an entire category has been built encompassing cases like Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo”. Thus, it is a common place that the situation in Somalia constitutes not …

Malnutrition is often seen as the problem of undernutrition directly induced by poverty in underdeveloped countries, or the lack of access to food. Yet in recent decades, humans have made considerable progress in terms of food production and delivery – taking a global average, of course – which has been largely in line with demand. Half a century ago, 2 …